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by sokoloff 1181 days ago
You’re still consuming the RAM for the duration. In our on-prem VMWare environment, we didn’t charge, but we thought of the limited allocation being RAM far ahead of CPU ahead of disk.
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ec109685 1180 days ago
The whole point of the bin packing in the blog post was to increase cpu utilization, so Amazon is clearly saving money if you are blocked on io.
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